Godefridi Guilielmi Leibnitii Principia philosophiae, more geometrico demonstrata: cum excerptis ex epistolis philosophi et scholiis quibusdam ex historia philosophica. Cum indicibus theorematum, auctorum, rerum denique et verborum memorabilium. Accedunt theoremata metaphysica De proprietatibus quibusdam entis infiniti et finiti mundique existentis perfectione, ex philosophia Leibnitiana pariter selecta et geometricae demonstrata nec non Meditatio philosophica de unione mentis et corporis denuo edita.

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First edition of this exposition on Leibniz's philosophy, by a contemporary of the philosopher; including a Latin translation of Leibniz's Monadology. "Little is known of Michael Gottlieb Hansch. A theologian from Leipzig and adviser to the Emperor Charles VI, he knew Leibniz personally from 1707 onwards. He was thus in an excellent position to acquaint himself with Leibnizian thought, having been in correspondence with Leibiniz for five years prior to the writing of the Monadology (1707-13). The first 19 pages of [the present work] consisted of Hansch's Latin translation of Monadology. Then followed the geometrical demonstration of Leibniz's definitions, 2 axioms, and 114 theorems. Hansch's erudite commentary on the Monadology contains excerpts from Leibniz's letters and teems with references to the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence, the Theodicy, the Système nouveau, Leibniz's reply to difficulties expressed by Bayle in his article Rosarius in tome II of the Receuil, to the Oratio de Sinarum philosophica practica of Wolff. [The book] contributed to Condillac's understanding of Leibnizian thought" (Hine, pp. 94-95). Hansch is perhaps best known as the purchaser of, and publisher of, Kepler's letters, a project in which Leibniz took great interest. Ravier 381. Ellen McNiven Hine, A Critical Study of Condillac's "Traite des Systemes", 1979. Quarto (207 x 169 mm). Contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, orange speckled edges. Light discolouration to vellum else binding in nice shape, contents browned; a very good, wide-margined copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 149331

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